JOB DESCRIPTION

Cloud Storage SME Level 3 Location: United States Maryland Annapolis Junction US citizenship required: YES Clearance Type: TS/SCI Description: The ideal candidate shall have extensive experience related to current storage technologies to include object-based storage, distributed unified storage and autonomous storage allocation. This subject matter expert will perform systems engineering services for core systems, components, and supporting systems. Candidate shall have experience designing, deploying and supporting storage in a utility compute environment and have a solid grasp of networking and computing technologies in order to tune and troubleshoot storage in a complex computing environment. Qualifications: Bachelor s Degree or higher in computer engineering or in a field related to the computer engineering or computer science disciplines plus 10 years System Engineering experience. An additional 4+ years of System Engineering experience may be substituted for the degree for a total of 14 years. Five (5) years of systems engineering experience working in a data-centric field and 10 years experience with IT systems development, implementation, integration, testing, and/or deployment planning. Provide expertise in architecture, design, development, requirement analysis, process improvement, system design, and implementation of testing. Extensive experience developing storage and object retention policies, including experience assuring storage processes adhere to customer data retention policies. Familiarity with all aspects of data storage, including protocols, monitoring and testing, as well as network requirements Skills: Experience with NetBackup (COTS product) to create policies, initiate backups and restores. Functional knowledge of customer storage hardware and software, NetApp, Oracle ZFS, and NetApp Cluster mode is a plus. Experience with storage protocols such as iSCSI, S3, Cinder, and HDFS. Experience with Open Source and Vender implementations such as EMC Atmos, Ceph, and ZFS. Experience with computing environments such as OpenStack and VMware Method of verifying task is preformed: Submit monthly status reports to the customer. Submit engineering reports on network problems, issues, risks and solutions to the customer as required. Deliver system requirements and specifications as directed. Deliver system architecture documentation as directed. Experience with Linux/Windows administration and scripting. Basic network troubleshooting skills. Ability to work independently or in a team dynamic; corporate, Mission focus.

Company Description:

QTG is a veteran- and minority-owned small business. Que Technology Group (QTG), Inc. provides Information Technology (IT) services. We specialize in cloud computing, display back technologies, IT architecture development, integration and maintenance, and provide core expertise with most operating systems.Backed by over 22 years of IT experience, Que Technology Group is a scalable solution provider with technical professionals who have the skills, product knowledge and commitment to help clients develop and implement the right solutions to solve their business needs. We employ highly skilled professionals and maintain a trusted relationship with some of the industry's most innovative IT vendors. We offer medical, dental and retirement benefits. Because we believe in caring for and investing in our employees, we also offer our employees professional development opportunities, in the form of a yearly allowance which can be used for job-related training/certification(s) of the employee's choice.